To stubble one's whidds (or to stubble it), verb. phr. (Old Cant).—To hold one's tongue (B. E. and Grose).
1827. Lytton, Pelham, lxxxii. Stubble it, you ben, you deserve to cly the jerk for your patter. Ibid. (1830), Paul Clifford. Stubble your whids, you wants to trick I.
Stubbs, adv. (Old Cant).—Nothing
(Grose and Vaux).
Stub-faced, adj. phr. (old).—Pitted
with small pox (Grose).
Stuck. See Stick in various
senses: also Pig.
Stuck-up, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Conceited;
purse-proud; assuming
airs, dignity, or importance.
Also (rare) as subs.
18[?]. Betsy Bobbet, 272. She was dressed up like a doll, but she didn't act stuck-up a mite.
1839. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ix. 'He's a nasty stuck-up monkey, that's what I consider him.' said Mrs Squeers, reverting to Nicholas. 'Supposing he is,' said Squeers, 'he's as well stuck-up in our schoolroom as anywhere else.'
1847. A. Smith, The Natural History of stuck-up People [Title].
1863. Oliphant, Salem Chapel, i. Them stuck-up ways may do with the Church folks as can't help themselves, but they'll never do with us Dissenters.
1879. Eggleston, Hoosier Schoolmaster. She was so dog on stuck-up that she turned up her nose . . . because I tuck a sheet off the bed to splice out the tablecloth.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 68. These stuckuppy snipsters as jaw about quiet and peace.
1899. Westcott, David Harum, xii. Mr Robinson instantly arrived at the determination that the stranger was stuck-up.
Study, subs. (B. E.).—'A Closet
of Books.'
See Brown Study.
Stuff, subs. (once literary, now
colloquial).—1. Belongings:
furniture, goods, utensils: generic.
The literary usage lingers in
'household-stuff,' and in such
a tributary sense as food-stuffs,'
'bread-stuffs' (= raw
material).
1360. Anturs of Arther and Sir Amadace [Camden Soc.], 21. [Oliphant, New Eng., i. 67. Stuffe stands for equipment; this led to its sense of furniture.]
1427-9. Wills and Inventories [Surtees Soc.], 75. Stuffe of myn houses of offices as panetre and buttre.
c.1430. Destr. Troy [E.E.T.S.], 5775. Assemblit were some the same in the fight, And restorit full stithly the stuff of the Grekes.
1593. Shakspeare, Comedy of Errors, iv. 4. 162. Away, to get our stuff aboard. Ibid. (1609), Tempest, i. 2. Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries.
2. (old colloquial).—Money: generic (Bee).
1774. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 261. Hector had got no great store of stuff Called cash, but ancient blood enough.
1778. Sheridan, Rivals, i. 1. Has she got the stuff, Mr Fag? Is she rich, hey?
1891. Gould, Double Event, 160. When his party plank the stuff down it's generally a moral.
1896. Lillard, Poker Stories, 50. Every sport with stuff in his pockets and lots of good clothes.
1903. Kennedy, Sailor Tramp, 1. iv. The sailor had spent over ten dollars by this time. 'How did—did yoush get the stuff, Sailor?' he asked.
3. (old: still colloquial).—In contempt for anything to be swallowed: spec. medicine.
1605. Shakspeare, Cymbeline, v. 5. 255. A certain stuff, which being ta'en, would cease The present power of life.
